MTG Salvation

Hi there! I'd love to have more tribal in my cube, but it's tough to get tribal effects in cube without including sub-optimal cards and/or including cards that are useless outside a tribal deck.

Right now, I use a few "lords" that are good enough on their own and then try to support it with creatures of that type that are good enough on their own. Here's what I have now:

Zombies
Graveborn Muse and Gravecrawler + lots of playable zombies

Goblins
Siege-Gang Commander + lots of playable goblins

Elves
Joraga Treespeaker + lots of playable elves
I want to try Imperious Perfect - has anyone tried her?

Squirrels
Deranged Hermit + Squirrel Nest

Merfolk
Coralhelm Commander with just a couple other merfolk (Merfolk Looter, Enclave Cryptologist, Augur of Bolas)

Wizards
Riptide Laboratory + lots of wizards with ETB effects (e.g., Venser, Shaper Savant, Vendilion Clique, Puppeteer Clique)

I love changelings because they help fill in the gaps, but I'm only using Mirror Entity, Mutavault, and Taurean Mauler now. Chameleon Colossus is great, but my green section is packed with good stuff already!

I'm also wondering what your thoughts are re: other versatile cards that might help support small tribal theme. E.g., Brass Herald, Adaptive Automaton, Riptide Replicator

I'd also love to squeeze Haakon, Stromgald Scourge and Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero in there, since they're some of my favorite creatures in constructed, but I don't think there's enough support for them right now.

I'm curious if anyone else has had success adding other minor tribal themes without messing up the overall card quality. I'd especially love to hear if anyone has found other changeling creatures to be good.

Other notable Wizards with ETB abilitites:
Æther Adept, Sea Gate Oracle, Snapcaster Mage (!), Sower of Temptation, Spellstutter Sprite, Trinket Mage

It's an impressive list, and makes me want to squeeze in the land since it will generally not take a spell slot in construction.

EDIT: Generally, I will only put in cards that are good by themselves, the fact they they interact randomly with other tribemates will simply be a bonus.

If they make one or two more good zombies I would be inclined to include Cemetery Reaper. Graveyard hate, token generator, zombie tribal seems like it is on the cusp of inclusion.

Humans and wolves with Mayor of Avabruck. Also, Krenko, Mob Boss is a fun goblin tribal card.

I run Imperious Perfect at 630 and it's a house. It's tough to argue with a 2/2 for G every turn.

-rexx

Imperious Perfect was in my cube WAY back in the day. It was okay, but it was really easy to deal with and didn't have a guaranteed impact. And since green's 4-drops and 5-drops were so damn good, her activation cost got in the way of curving out.

My Multiplayer cube packs Elementals... Flamekin Harbinger and Incandescent Soulstoke. There are enough good Elemental finishers for slower cubes that these two become quite viable.

Mayor of Avabruck is great, I've been running him and completely disregarding his 'lordship', simply as a low-cmc creature that can become a 1-card army if unanswered.

Last time I drafted him though, I was impressed with how relevant his human-tribal side is with so many cube cards; not to mention mutavault, which in addition to being a great manland also offers colorless support to every tribe out there.

You could consider Nameless Inversion or Crib Swap as well, but depending on what tribal support you include they might not be relevant (but let me tell you recycling removal with haakon or horde of notions is pretty sweet).

Faeries is usually a pretty strong tribe in cube as well, with bitterblossom, vendilion clique, oona's prowler or marsh flitter if you run those, pestermite if you run the splinter twin / kiki-jiki combo, or spellstutter sprite as well.

Also, Krenko, Mob Boss is a fun goblin tribal card.

I like Krenko for the same reason i like Mayor of Avabruck, he doesn't need to have tribal support to be potentially explosive & with tribal support he only gets better. That said red does have a lot of 4cmc creatures to compete with.